Bus Roof Raise Hat Channel

Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.

Bus roof raise hat channel.

Climbing on the seats getting on the roof through the emergency hatch with adam movie night climbing on the seats that litter our yard and now that it s empty we plan to have a family camp out in the bus soon. We had all of the old hat channel cut ready to raise but there was something wrong with the rear cap. Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach. I had to make the remaining 14 cuts the day of the raise.

A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value. As you can see in some of my earliest photos due to the roof raise the derelicte bus was left in a window less state. Nick stayed at the bus and cut some of the old hat channel old school style. The stock hat channel ribs is 13 14 gauge and the stock skin is 16 gauge.

These handy aides are used in the construction industry to help workers using scaffolding. So based on other builds and those numbers i had already decided on 14 gauge hat channel and 18 gauge skin some people go 20 without issues. For me the two and very important decisions were the height of the roof raise and the fasteners. The humans began the roof raise by constructing four equal walk boards.

If i had cut all of the channels ahead of time the roof might have slid or fallen so it wasn t worth the risk. One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof. To be more specific it had windows but there was no glass to separate inside from out which is less than ideal when it comes to preparing the bus for future work. The man knows no limit and will be sure to take your adventure rig to the next level.

We were hoping to get some new hat channel fastened on to a newly raised bus but hit a snag. Why raise the roof. For the kids the bus is a great playground. Having pioneered the structurally sound roof raise with his own custom hat channel design and signature building techniques he is now working tirelessly to develop a line of bus based adventure rigs that has never before been seen.

It s all very exciting so let s get into it. Turns out there was a horizontal. We are approaching roof raise time. Sunday night was kind of tough.

Ahead of the sunday we raised the roof i cut through the rear of the bus the front of the bus and half of the channels. Roof raise hat channel slider.